奥巴马遭遇任期来最大的挫折

President Barack Obama has admitted that his failure to pass "common sense gun safety laws" in the US is the greatest frustration of his presidency。

奥巴马总统承认未能在美国通过“常识性枪支安全法”，是任职期间遭受的最大挫折。

In an interview with the BBC, Mr Obama said it was "distressing" not to have made progress on the issue "even in the face of repeated mass killings" vowed to keep trying, but the BBC’s editor Jon Sopel said the president did not sound very confident。

接受BBC采访时，奥巴马表示，“尽管反复出现枪击事件”，但未能作出改变，因此感到“沮丧”。他发誓表示将继续尝试，但BBC编辑Jon Sopel表示，听起来，奥巴马并不自信。

However, Mr Obama said race relations had improved during his presidency. But with just 18 months left in power, he said gun control was the area where he has been "most frustrated and most stymied" since coming to power in 2009.

但奥巴马总统表示在任期间，种族关系得到了改善。奥巴马的任期还有18个月，他表示自2009年当权以来，枪支的管控是“受到阻碍”最多的一个领域。

"If you look at the number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it’s less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it’s in the tens of thousands," Mr Obama said. "For us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing." 。

“自9.11恐怖袭击之后，因恐怖袭击受害的美国人不足100人。但有成千上万人死于枪支暴力。”奥巴马说道。“但我们解决不了这个问题，这着实让人苦恼。”

Mr Obama has pushed for stricter gun control throughout his presidency but has been unable to secure any significant changes to the laws。

奥巴马任职期间一直努力实行更加严格的枪支管控，但并没有能对相关法律作出实质性的改变。

President Obama seemed very confident and very relaxed, as if he felt things were starting to go his way r the midterm elections, Mr Obama looked as if he was walking around with a very heavy weight on his back, feeling very frustrated。

之前，奥巴马总统很自信也很放松，仿佛事情开始按照他的期望发展。但中期选举之后，奥巴马肩上似乎扛起了重担，倍感失意。

But since then he’s had the diplomatic deal with Cuba, the nuclear agreement with Iran, an Asian trade deal and several other successes. Suddenly, he has a spring in his step. He feels like he’s achieving quite a lot at the moment and he still has ambitions to achieve an awful lot more。

但自此之后，奥巴马先后与古巴签订外交协议，与伊朗签订核计划协议，与亚洲签订贸易协议并取得其他若干成就。突然间，奥巴马的脚步轻松起来。他感觉此刻取得的成就甚多，他仍然是雄心壮志，期待取得更多成就。

On race relations, Mr Obama said recent concerns around mass incarcerations were "deserve intense attention" but insisted progress had been made。

就种族关系来说，奥巴马表示与大规模囚禁相关的问题值得引起“广泛关注”，但他坚持表示已经取得了进展。

Children growing up during the eight years of his presidency "will have a different view of race relations in this country."

在奥巴马8年任期中成长起来的孩子，“会对种族关系有不同的认识。”

Mr Obama was speaking to the BBC at the White House before departing for Kenya. Talking about how he was feeling after his recent successes, he said "every president, every leader has strengths and weaknesses". "One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don’t get too high when it’s high and I don’t get too low when it’s low," he said。

奥巴马出访肯尼亚之前在白宫接受了BBC的采访。谈到对最近取得的成功的看法时，奥巴马表示：“每个领导者都有优势和不足。”“我的一个优势是，我拥有平和的心态。情况好时不骄傲；情况差时不气馁。”